possibly
adverb
uk
/ˈpɒs.ə.bli/ us
/ˈpɑː.sə.bli/possibly adverb (NOT CERTAIN)
A2
used when something is not certain:
- maybe"Do you want to go to the show tonight?" "Maybe. Let's see how I feel after work."
- perhapsPerhaps he'll decide to join us tonight.
- possiblyThere are four, possibly five people who have been injured in the explosion.
- potentiallyThese potentially unsafe chemicals are present in our groundwater.
- conceivablyIt would be hard, but a burglar could conceivably shut down your electronic alarm system by hacking into it.
- plausiblyShe argued, rather plausibly, that her neighbour was the one who took the tools from her allotment.
- I might possibly get the job finished by tomorrow evening, if I have no more interruptions.
- I'd guess that she's in her forties - 45 possibly?
- "Are you going to be at church on Sunday morning?" "Possibly - it depends how late we get back on Saturday."
- There were possibly a hundred people at the meeting - certainly 80.
- I can't understand why he's so bad tempered this week - possibly something at school is upsetting him.
- amorphous
- be neither fish nor fowl idiom
- blurringly
- blurry
- circumstantial
- indeterminacy
- indeterminate
- indeterminately
- insecure
- insecurely
- murky
- shakily
- shakiness
- shallowly
- slippery
- spec
- wide open
- wifty
- wishy-washy
- you never know idiom
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possibly adverb (WITH CAN/COULD)
B2
used with "can" or "could" for emphasis:
- add credence to something
- always
- anything's possible idiom
- arguably
- as never before idiom
- betting
- fighting chance
- give credence to something
- happen
- houseroom
- I shouldn't wonder idiom
- margin
- odds
- possible
- preferentially
- presumably
- prob
- probabilistic
- prospect
- tend
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